“Dr. Kashyap is a respected clinician with a deep aptitude for the application of technology into clinical and administrative workflows,” says Alistair Erskine, MD, chief information and digital officer for Emory Healthcare. “In the CHIO role, she will also serve as a technical solutions architect and a clinical subject matter expert. We are thrilled to welcome her to Emory.”

Kashyap comes to Emory Healthcare from Yale New Haven Health System in New Haven, Connecticut, where she serves as chief medical information officer. In this position, she plays a pivotal role in advancing population health informatics and clinical decision support. She is also an assistant clinical professor in internal medicine and biostatistics (health informatics) at Yale School of Medicine. Kashyap has served in a number of leadership positions since joining Yale New Haven Health System in 2011. Prior to that, she held the position of assistant medical director of informatics at the Fallon Clinic at Worchester, Massachusetts, and as a physician champion for the electronic health record (EHR) at Kaiser Permanente in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

With 20 years of experience as a clinical informatician, Kashyap has developed and deployed digital solutions that positively impact both patients and clinicians.

Kashyap received her medical degree from Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College in Meerut, India. She then completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Morristown, NJ, and a fellowship in informatics at Yale.

In 2019, Kashyap was named a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA). She is also a member of the American Board of Medical Specialties Clinic Informatics Sub-Board.